Tank and the Bangas, the genre-blending New Orleans band that intermingles R&B, funk, jazz, hip-hop and spoken word, finally ...

Definitely, respect is number one. And liking each other’s music, aside from how you create together—because you can say, “Oh ...

New Orleans' Tank and the Bangas won its first Grammy on Sunday, bringing home the Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award for ...

August 10, 2022 • On this session of World Cafe, Tarriona "Tank" Ball talks about how the radio of her youth and the radio of today made her want to create her own station with the band.

Tank and The Bangas are the kind of band you expect to spontaneusly burst into song even when they’re not performing, and not just because they cite old Disney movies as an inspiration on the ...

The Tank and the Bangas frontwoman talks about the strength and versatility of her words — alone and within her music.

surrounded by the Tank and the Bangas band, a trio of dancers and an exuberant crowd. Ball, a spoken word poet, formed Tank and the Bangas in 2011. The band’s eclectic style defies easy ...

Today on the show, we go through the categories that don’t get broadcast and the artists that didn’t win at this year's ...

Tarriona “Tank” Ball laughed when asked why she and her band, Tank and the Bangas, would choose to open their 2025 headlining tour with dates in Kansas City and Omaha, forcing them to drive ...

Headliners taking the stage will be Lil Wayne & The Roots, Kravitz and Washington as well as Santana, Burna Boy, Bryson Tiller, Babyface, Tank and The Bangas, Gladys Knight, Big Freedia ...

But when Tank and the Bangas played a set in 2017, as the winners of that year's national Tiny Desk Contest, their performance brought such a rush of exuberance, spontaneity and sheer joy to the ...

The Tank and the Bangas frontwoman talks about the strength and versatility of her words — alone and within her music. Since NPR's Tiny Desk concert series launched in 2008, a dizzying range of ...